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Yet, few topics have generated more comments and expressions of concern than Project 2025. So, even though the Supreme Court term is over and it’s a holiday week, this is the perfect time to answer your Project 2025 questions.

Let’s get started and in the meantime, Happy Independence Day!

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What is Project 2025 and why are people so concerned?

— Talia

Project 2025 is a plan from a coalition of right-wing groups anchored by the Heritage Foundation. Together, these groups operate as the ideological center for a new brand of extreme conservative policy.

Their blueprint for a future Trump administration advances an extreme form of MAGA. It is fiercely isolationist, xenophobic and disdainful of democratic norms. It seeks to replace career civil servants with political cronies and advances a theory of presidential power that is just short of dictatorship. In addition to advancing conservative policies, Project 2025 is creating a database of MAGA adherents to staff the government with Trump loyalists.

In my view, Dobbs, Fischer, Loper Bright and now the immunity case are some of the necessary first steps to allow for implementation of Project 2025 if evil wins, and Trump is elected president. Does this make sense or am I going down a rabbit hole?

— Patricia

You are entirely correct. Each of these cases either directly supports a stated goal of Project 2025 or facilitates its success.

For example, Dobbs effectuates the conservative agenda of banning abortion nationwide. Loper, which does away with deference to agency interpretation of ambiguous laws, undercuts the role that government experts play in balancing competing policy proposals. It also opens up existing agency decisions — that we all thought were settled — to legal challenge and new interpretation. Fischer and the immunity decision will embolden Trump and his supporters to act even more lawlessly because they won't face the threat of consequence if they cross legal lines.

This is not a rabbit hole. It is exactly why the Supreme Court…

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